Comcast makes $66-billion bid for Disney

Comcast Corp, America's largest cable television operator, has made an unsolicited offer to buy Walt Disney Company in a hostile bid worth $66 billion, reports ABC News.The surprise bid, if......

Google cost taxpayers $7 bn a year?

Online search giant Google, known for promoting free web-based alternatives to costly software products, has been charged with using 21 times more bandwidth than what it pays for, thus making the......

Rags to riches tale of mining mogul Anil Agarwal

A reception often reserved for rockstars came the way of mining mogul Anil Agarwal when he started revealing nuggets of his ascent from a scrap-metal dealer to one of India's most prominent......

Tips from the original start-up guy

Steve Case's book is filled with insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Image: Steve Case was in the middle of the action in the......

Disney, Fox, Warner Bros to collab for sports streaming

IMAGE: The new entity will be jointly owned by the three media companies, which will have equal board representation and agree to license their sports content on a non-exclusive basis. An......

Glitches hit Mayweather-Pacquiao pay-per-view broadcast

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. of the U.S. goes after Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines (L) in the first round during their welterweight WBO, WBC and WBA (Super) title fight in Las Vegas, Nevada, on......

Ex-US tennis star Blake mistakenly slammed to ground, handcuffed by NYPD

File picture: James Blake in action during the Connecticut Open in August 2014. Photograph: Elsa/Getty Images Former tennis star James Blake was slammed to the ground, handcuffed and detained for......

Mayweather, Pacquiao fight smashes pay-per-view records

Boxer Manny Pacquiao poses for the members of the media upon his arrival at the international airport in Manila. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters The ‘Fight of the Century’ between......

Mayweather v Pacquiao fight to break broadcast pay records

  A store employee holds up a stand with miniature figurines of boxers Manny Pacquiao (right) of the Philippines and Floyd Mayweather Jr. of the U.S., at a mall in Manila. Photograph: Romeo......